 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA b Department of Geology, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014...Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2812, USA Received 6 December 2005; accepted 25 January 2007...vapor-phase minerals include topaz, garnet, red Fe–Mn-rich beryl, bixbyite, pseudobrookite, and hematite...rhyolitic lavas was first discovered in 1859 in western Utah and reported in the scientific literature by Simpson...rhyolites–emphasizing new data from the Wah Wah Mountains of southwestern Utah–and compares them to Proterozoic |  | Gatta, Giacomo Diego, Adamo, Ilaria, Zullino, Andrea, Gagliardi, Valentina, Lorenzi, Roberto, Rotiroti, Nicola, Faldi, Ludovica, Prosperi, Loredana (2022) A Multi-Methodological Investigation of Natural and Synthetic Red Beryl Gemstones. Minerals, 12 (4) 439 doi:10.3390/min12040439 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Multi-Methodological Investigation of Natural and Synthetic Red Beryl Gemstones Giacomo Diego Gatta 1, *, Ilaria Adamo...investigation of a natural (from the Wah Wah Mountains of Beaver County, Utah) and three synthetic (hydrothermally...(hydrothermally grown) gem-quality red beryls by means of: gemmological standard testing, laser ablation inductively...the causes of their color (from red, to purplish-red, or orange-red) and how different and complementary...Rotiroti, N.; Faldi, L.; Prosperi, L. A Keywords: red beryls; colored gemstones; LA-ICP-MS; IR spectroscopy; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Poem: Can Also See 15 Red Beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains of Southern Utah 16 Board of Director Meeting...person working with it, often blue for good and red for evil with many variations. The crystals thus...area. A brief geological survey of the Davis Mountains will lead into photos of the varied terrain on...can see. May 2021 15 RED BERYL FROM THE WAH WAH MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN UTAH By Ken Rock, Newsletter...Gemstones: Red Beryl from Utah,” July 2020. The exceedingly rare red beryl found in the Wah Wah Mountains of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles The Thomas Range, Wah Wah Mountains, and vicinity, western Utah ..............................COVER: BERYL on rhyolite from the Violet #5 claim , Wah Wah M oun tains, Beaver County, Utah. The crystal...localities: 1he Thomas Range, WahWall Mountains, vicn ty, Western and Utah by Lanny R. Ream P.O. Box 284...83864 he rhyolites o f westcentral and southwestern Utah comprise one o f North America’s most interesting...abundant sherry-brown topaz crystals and brilliant red beryl are the best known species. T INTRODUCTION Henry |  | | Journal (issue) | | Carol M. Stockton Gem-Quality Red Beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains, Utah l a m e s E. Shigley and Eugene...above and the 2.67-ct demantoid garnet below by two red spinels. Yellow sapphire is discussed in the Gem...was described as bluegreen in daylight and purple-red in incandescent light) with a refractive index of...32 garnets of various h ~ ~ eincluding s, purple) red) orange' and yellow. Refractive index' specific gravity'...stones of the pyropealmandine series (usually red-orange to red-purple in color), which instead display a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | perhaps best known for its topaz, red beryl, variscite, and azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species...species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded by [New York University] at 19:26 09...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...Beaver County MINERAL COLLECTING IN THE STATE of Utah has undergone a resurgence over the last ten years |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quality, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching all the way from Maine to Georgia...sporadic source of superb gem amethyst in the mountains just east of Phoenix, Arizona. Superb amethyst...United States: benitoite from California and red beryl from Utah. There is, arguably, a third, hiddenite,...noticed Indian children playing with blue, green, and red “marbles,” leading to the discovery of gem tourmaline...which weights 34 carats. Some of the stones are beryl from Massachusetts. The necklace dates from the |  | | Report (issue) | | super examples of the famous red beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah? The Utahbased dealership of...(lehighminerals.com) has a selection of exquisite red beryl specimens which, though hardly “new”—the update...deep red 1.9-cm crystal with spots of adhering rhyolite is just about as nice a specimen of Utah red beryl...when Utah red beryl was available in larger quantities on the market than it is today. Red Beryl, 1.9...Claim, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Lehigh Minerals specimen and photo. Red Beryl, 1.2 cm |  | | Journal (issue) | | this new cesium-rich member of the beryl group. 302 Red Beryl from Utah: A Review and Update James E....world’s only known occurrence of gem-quality red beryl. pg. 299 REGULAR FEATURES _____________________..._____________________ 314 Lab Notes • Chrysocolla “owl” agate • Red coral • Coated diamonds • Natural emerald with nail-head...optical centers • Gem-quality afghanite • Blue beryl discovery in Canada • Gem-quality corundum from...THE COVER Within the beryl group, two of the rarest gem materials are red beryl and the new mineral pezzottaite |  | | Report (volume) | | ,_ Ridge Area, Sdtithern WaM Watl MOuntainS~/ I ron C.ou nty, Utah Geology and Geochemistry of the...the Broken Ridge Area, Southern Wah Wah Mountains, I ron County, Utah By KAREN A. DUTTWEI LER and WALLACE...the Broken Ridge Area, Southern Wah Wah Mountains, Iron County, Utah. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin...Bibliography: p. 1. Rhyolite-Utah-Broken Ridge Region. 2. Steamboat Mountain Formation (Utah}. 3. Geology, Stratigraphic-Miocene...the Broken Ridge area, southern Wah Wah Mountains, Iron County, Utah FIGURES 1-3. 4-6. 7. 8. 9. 10 |  | | Catalog/List | | 120x79x33mm. £98 8 RED BERYL, Violet Claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah, USA. The very rare red beryl, main crystal...Colorado, USA Deep coloured well formed xtl. 57x27x27mm. £68 10 TOPAZ, Sakhan Gyi, 11 QUARTZ with red quartz |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gene Meieran, Bill Larsen, and Dave Wilber. RED BERYL DONATED The Gemological Institute of America (GIA)...California, recently received a large number of red beryl Red beryl specimens donated to the Gemological Institute... Michael Nielson, and Tina Nielson, of Red Beryl, Inc., Utah. Some of the specimens are on display in...used in the classrooms by students. Beryl of this beautiful red color was first discovered in the early...have been found to date is in the Wah Wah Mountains of south-central Utah. GEOLOGY WALKING TOUR Last fall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | which weights 34 carats. Some of the stones are beryl from Massachusetts. The necklace dates from the...Diego County, California. Tino Hammid photo. Left: Beryl, variety emerald, from the Rist mine, Hiddenite...Lower left: Red beryl, a fine large crystal from the Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Bob Jones...Scovil photo. Right: Red beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. The cut stone weighs |  | | Catalog/List | | (3cm x 1cm x 1.5cm) Hunza, Pakistan. 6 x 6mm purple-red ruby crystal sitting in and on matrix. Crystal displays...surface with acicular needles in groups of carmine red chalcotrichite covering some 35% of surface. Classic...x 4cm x 3cm) Trixie Mine, Tintic District, Utah Co., Utah, U.S.A. Ore specimen with top surface of a...similar size ( largest 10mm on edge) of well formed red brown zircon partly exposed from white matrix. Mounted...(8cm x 5cm x 4cm) N'Chwanning, S. Africa. Dark to red brown very bright garnet crystals covering almost |  | | Book | | The Red Emerald Black Album Words by Seth William Rozendaal Photos by David Rozendaal This work is...who inspires everything. This book celebrates the Red Emerald’s public debut at the 2017 Tucson Gem and...868-7207 SWRProperties@gmail.com Index I - Red Beryl IS Red Emerald II - Formation III - Matrix Specimens...- Facet-Grade Red Emerald XIII - The Red Emerald Suite Treasure I ~ Red Beryl IS Red Emerald The human...brilliant stone, while the low refractive index of beryl filters the intensity of light to create the pleasing |  | | Catalog/List | | 2006 lUSA. Beautifully iridescent deep honey brown crystals...REALGAR Shimen, Hunan Province, China. Vividly bright red aystals to 12mm. 90x45x25mm. £85 3 AQUAMARINE &...on barite, Blanchard Claims, Bingham, New Mexico, USA. The bright blue shows up wwell on the white barite...Vein, Badger Mine, Mariposa County, California, USA. Heavy with gold. 43x28x26mm. £65 £45 8 STELLERITE...colouness xtals on rose red under1ay. 47x40x33mm. £48 £48 20 CROCOITE Red Level Mine, nr Dundas, Tasmania |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Standardless, minimally destructive chemical analysis of red beryls by means of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy...were performed on six samples of a rare red variety of beryl, using a standardless method (Calibration...demonstrating that this technique can distinguish red beryl from pezzottaite, mainly by observing the differences...the quantification of major and minor elements in beryl, as shown by comparison with literature data. In...concentration of this chromophore element and the red colour saturation of the samples. 2006, 2007; Gottfried |  | | Catalog/List | | £38 12 AURICHALCITE, 79 Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. Fine turquoise acicular crystals. 59x43x28mm. £24...36mm. 63x52x48mm. £58 19 RED BERYL, Violet Claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah, USA. Rare 6mm xtl with smaller...77x51x25mm. £32 22 VARISITE, Maudlin Mountains, Arkansas, USA. Attractive apple green velvety druse...Vein, Badger Mine, Mariposa County, California, USA. Very rich bright crystalline gold. 32x23x15mm. £110...crystals, White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA. 27x10x7mm. £28 33 CASSITERITE and APATITE, Ehrenfriedersdorf |  | Czaja, Maria, Lisiecki, Radosław, Chrobak, Artur, Sitko, Rafał, Mazurak, Zbigniew (2018) The absorption- and luminescence spectra of Mn3+ in beryl and vesuvianite. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 45 (5) 475-488 doi:10.1007/s00269-017-0934-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | absorption- and luminescence spectra of Mn3+ in beryl and vesuvianite Maria Czaja1 · Radosław Lisiecki2...paramagnetic-resonance spectra of Mn3+ in red beryl from Wah Wah Mountains (Utah USA) and of pink- and purple vesuvianite...stabilization energies are equal to 130.9 kJ/mol for the red beryl, and 151.5– 158.0 and 168.0 kJ/mol for for the...pink- and the purple vesuvianite, respectively. The red photoluminescence of Mn3+ was not intensive either...for beryl and 17 μs for vesuvianite. Keywords Mn3+ ion · Luminescence · Optical absorption · Beryl · Vesuvianite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama 36849-5305 Beryl, Variety Emerald Chivor Mine, Chivor, Columbia BERYL, this issue’s featured...collectible of all species. Unlike many minerals, beryl typically occurs as individual welldeveloped crystals...Figure 1. View of the Chivor mine in the Andes Mountains, Colombia; photo by Peter C. Keller (1984). 332...centuries by many cultures. An excellent summary of beryl mineralogy was published in the January/February...Emerald and Other Beryls, also by Sinkankas (1981). Beryl is a silicate mineral composed of complex six-sided |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the mining ventures to purchase a smelter in Utah where he was an industrial blacksmith. Gene’s father...(Taggert et al. 1988, 1989); the Wah Wah mountains and Thomas Range, Utah (Foord et al. 1985, Shigley and...minerals; micas and clay minerals; amazonite, topaz, red beryl, and 792 SIMMONS AND WEBBER: MEMORIAL OF EUGENE...pegmatite district, San Diego County, California, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 387–388. Foord, E.E...thorite in lithophysal rhyolite-Topaz Mountain, Utah, U.S.A. Mineralogical Magazine, 49, 729–731. Foord |  | Burt, Donald M., Sheridan, Michael F., Bikun, James V., Christiansen, Eric H. (1982) Topaz rhyolites; distribution, origin, and significance for exploration. Economic Geology, 77 (8) 1818-1836 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.77.8.1818 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ColoradoPlateau (in Colorado,New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada) and in Idaho and Montana. They alsooccur...volcanogenic depositsof Be, U, Sn,and F. SporMountain,Utah, providesthe bestexample of this type of mineralization...km westof what would84 years from the ThomasRange,Utah, where topazwasfirst laterbecomethe Climaxmolybdenummine...percentF; somevitrophyres,suchasthosefrom SporMountain,Utah,contain more than 1.0 percentF (Bikun, 1980). Glassy...lithophysal(concentricallylay- the Honeycomb Hills, Utah (Lindsey, 1977). The of thisfeatureare complex,but |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Natural History TOPAZ IS THE STATE GEM of Texas and Utah; however, it is best known to the general public...probably our present Zabargad), an island in the Red Sea. A detailed examination of the etymology of topaz...and Kiev pegmatite districts, Ukraine; 11. Ural Mountains, Russia; 12. Gilgit pegmatite district and Katlang...gold-yellow topaz pale blue topaz pale blue topaz rose-red topaz inferior, nongem topaz pale blue topaz pale...Figure 2. Topaz, 4.9 cm high, Mursinka, Ural Mountains, Russia. Fersman Museum specimen, Jeffrey Scovil |  | Best, Myron G., Grant, S. Kerry, Mehnert, H.H., Keith, J.D., Naeser, C.W. (1987) Oligocene and Miocene volcanic rocks in the central Pioche-Marysvale igneous belt, western Utah and eastern Nevada. Professional Paper 1433ab. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1433ab | Report (issue) | | the Central Pioche-Marysvale Igneous Belt, Western Utah and Eastern Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...the Central Pioche-Marysvale Igneous Belt, Western Utah and Eastern Nevada Stratigraphy of the Volcanic...Volcanic Oligocene Needles Range Group in Southwestern Utah and Eastern Nevada By MYRON G. BEST and S. KERRY...Tectonism in and near the Southern Wah Wah Mountains, Southwestern Utah By MYRON G. BEST, HARALD H. MEHNERT...the central Pioche-Marysvale igneous belt, western Utah and eastern Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey professional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photos of both beryl specimens courtesy Ameri can Museum of Natural History. BERYL: A SUMMARY This...This brief survey of beryl, its crystallography and composition, its properties and special features, and...ad ditional data and references to the extensive beryl literature as well as discussions of topics not...the above, edited by Peter G. Read, is entitled Beryl and is available from Butlerworths Scientific Ltd...the treasure sought was small fractured bits of beryl in the vivid green variety that we call emerald |
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Ruby Violet claims, Beaver County, Utah, USA